Hyperglycemia in bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study (2009)
Schut, Ewout S, Westendorp, Willeke F, De Gans, Jan, Kruyt, Nyika D, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Reitsma, Johannes B, ...
Abstract Background Hyperglycemia has been associated with unfavorable outcome in several disorders, but few data are available in bacterial meningitis. We assessed the incidence and significance of...
Improved survival of children with sepsis and purpura: effects of age, gender, and era (2007)
Maat, Martine, Buysse, Corinne MP, Emonts, Marieke, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Joosten, Koen FM, De Groot, Ronald, ...
Abstract Background To gain insight into factors that might affect results of future case-control studies, we performed an analysis of children with sepsis and purpura admitted to the paediatric...
Weisfelt, Martijn, Van De Beek, Diederik, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Reitsma, Johannes B, De Gans, Jan
Abstract Background A low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white-blood cell count (WBC) has been identified as an independent risk factor for adverse outcome in adults with bacterial meningitis. Whereas a...
Arthritis in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study (2006)
Weisfelt, Martijn, Van De Beek, Diederik, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, De Gans, Jan
Abstract Background Although the coexistence of bacterial meningitis and arthritis has been noted in several studies, it remains unclear how often both conditions occur simultaneously. Methods We...
Arthritis in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study (2006)
Weisfelt, Martijn, Beek, Diederik Van De, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Gans, Jan De
Antibiotic guidelines and antibiotic use in adult bacterial meningitis in The Netherlands (2002)
Van De Beek, Diederik, De Gans, Jan, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Vermeulen, Marinus, Dankert, Jacob
In The Netherlands, national guidelines for the treatment of adult patients with bacterial meningitis were introduced in October 1997. In 1998 we began a prospective, nationwide study to evaluate the...
First Trimester Listeria monocytogenes Septicemia (1997)
Mariëtte Goddijn, Hans G. Schipper, Lodewijk Spanjaard, Hans Wolf
Background: Little is known about fetal outcome after Listeria monocytogenes septicemia in the first trimester of pregnancy.Case: A primigravida with L. monocytogenes septicemia at 9 weeks gestation...
Epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the Netherlands / (1986)
Thesis (doctoral)--Amsterdam, 1986.
Nederlandsche diplomatieke en andere bescherming in den vreemde 1795-1914 ... (1923)
Proefschrift--Leiden.
Pannekoek, Yvonne, Westenberg, Steven M., De Vries, Jan, Repping, Sjoerd, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Eijk, Paul P., ...
In order to ascertain the microbiological quality of stored semen specimens processed for artificial insemination by a donor (AID), we developed a PCR assay targeting the chlamydial plasmid to detect...
Wang, Guiqing, Van Dam, Alje P., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Dankert, Jacob
To study whether pathogenic clusters of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains occur, we typed 136 isolates, cultured from specimens from patients (n = 49) with various clinical entities and from...
Vázquez, Julio A., Arreaza, Luisa, Block, Colin, Ehrhard, Ingrid, Gray, Stephen J., Heuberger, Sigrid, ...
Previous studies have shown that there is considerable variation in the methods and media used to determine the susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis to antimicrobial agents in different...
Schouls, Leo M., Van Der Ende, Arie, Van De Pol, Ingrid, Schot, Corrie, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Vauterin, Paul, ...
Recently, there has been an increase in The Netherlands in the number of cases of invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib). To study a possible change in the Hib population...
Naiemi, Nashwan Al, Duim, Birgitta, Savelkoul, Paul H. M., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, De Jonge, Evert, Bart, Aldert, ...
A transferable plasmid encoding SHV-12 extended-spectrum β-lactamase, TEM-116, and aminoglycoside resistance was responsible for two sequential clonal outbreaks of Enterobacter cloacae and...
Arthritis in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study
Weisfelt, Martijn, Van De Beek, Diederik, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, De Gans, Jan
Pannekoek, Yvonne, Westenberg, Steven M., De Vries, Jan, Repping, Sjoerd, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Eijk, Paul P., ...
In order to ascertain the microbiological quality of stored semen specimens processed for artificial insemination by a donor (AID), we developed a PCR assay targeting the chlamydial plasmid to detect...
Wang, Guiqing, Van Dam, Alje P., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Dankert, Jacob
To study whether pathogenic clusters of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains occur, we typed 136 isolates, cultured from specimens from patients (n = 49) with various clinical entities and from...
Vázquez, Julio A., Arreaza, Luisa, Block, Colin, Ehrhard, Ingrid, Gray, Stephen J., Heuberger, Sigrid, ...
Previous studies have shown that there is considerable variation in the methods and media used to determine the susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis to antimicrobial agents in different...
Schouls, Leo M., Van Der Ende, Arie, Van De Pol, Ingrid, Schot, Corrie, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Vauterin, Paul, ...
Recently, there has been an increase in The Netherlands in the number of cases of invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib). To study a possible change in the Hib population...
Naiemi, Nashwan Al, Duim, Birgitta, Savelkoul, Paul H. M., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, De Jonge, Evert, Bart, Aldert, ...
A transferable plasmid encoding SHV-12 extended-spectrum β-lactamase, TEM-116, and aminoglycoside resistance was responsible for two sequential clonal outbreaks of Enterobacter cloacae and...
Arthritis in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study
Weisfelt, Martijn, Van De Beek, Diederik, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, De Gans, Jan
King, Michael R., Vimr, Ross P., Steenbergen, Susan M., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Plunkett, Guy, Blattner, Frederick R., ...
Escherichia coli K1 is the leading cause of human neonatal sepsis and meningitis and is important in other clinical syndromes of both humans and domestic animals; in this strain the polysialic acid...
Jasper M. Bos, Hans C. Rumke, Robert Welte, Lodewijk Spanjaard, Loek Van Alphen, Maarten J. Postma
Background: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis group B are among the main causes of invasive bacterial meningitis infections in infants. Worldwide, these diseases lead to significant...
First Trimester Listeria monocytogenes Septicemia
Goddijn, Mariëtte, Schipper, Hans G., Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Wolf, Hans
Background: Little is known about fetal outcome after Listeria monocytogenes septicemia in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Activity of Daptomycin against Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Cerebrospinal Fluid▿
We tested the activity of daptomycin against 76 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cerebrospinal fluid by broth dilution and Etest methods. For the broth dilution method, the MIC range was 1.0 to...
Improved survival of children with sepsis and purpura: effects of age, gender, and era
Maat, Martine, Buysse, Corinne MP, Emonts, Marieke, Spanjaard, Lodewijk, Joosten, Koen FM, De Groot, Ronald, ...
Johnson, Timothy J., Wannemuehler, Yvonne, Johnson, Sara J., Stell, Adam L., Doetkott, Curt, Johnson, James R., ...
Since extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains from human and avian hosts encounter similar challenges in establishing infection in extraintestinal locations, they may share...